Fasting Good For Your Heart

Regular fasting may boost heart health, according to Salt Lake City doctors, who studied the relationship between periodic fasting and cardiovascular disease.

Two hundred participants underwent angiography, a diagnostic test that takes an X-ray of the blood vessels and heart chambers and determines if the person has coronary heart disease. Doctors expected the participants to have a relatively high rate of fasting since 90 percent of the patients were Mormon, a faith that encourages its members to fast for one day a month.

At the end of the study, they found that those who regularly fasted had a 58 percent lower risk of coronary disease compared with those who didn’t fast.

Researchers say the findings are important because they affirm the results of a study published in 2008 in The American Journal of Cardiology, which found a similar association between fasting and heart disease among 448 patients.

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